having by any means sustained so much
damage as has been stated by him. And it
is also a subject of rejoicing that, instead of
eighty-nine farm-houses which he informs us
are all darhaged, and the greater part of them
destroyed by fire and by large pumice-stones,
neither Mr. LivetZen, nor myself, could in
the course of our journey (which extended
to every farm in the way of being injured by
the eruption) discover more than eight
farmers -houses, and two cottages, which can
never be inhabited: these are, Eystridalur,
Thverardalur, Aa, Nes, Holmasel, Holmar,
Efri-Fliotar, and Sydri-Fliotar. To these,
however, which are totally uninhabitable,
ought, perhaps, to be added the estate of
Eystri-Dalbaer, in Landbrot; for this farm,
which has always been subject to annual dar
mages, by the drifted sand from the districts
to the eastward of it, is now, by reason of the
disappearance of the waters of the Skaptaa,
that formerly swallowed up a great portion
of the sand, totally destroyed. Yet it has
not received any damage immediately from
the fire. Exclusive of the two cottages,
called Kalfafellskot and Blomsturvellir, there
are in all, twenty-nine farm-houses which
the fire has more or less damaged, yet not to
that degree, but they may in the course of
time again be tenanted. Of these there ate
at present fifteen lying desolate, Hvammur^
Svinadalitr^ Eystri-Asar, Botnar, Hnausar,
Dalbser, Rollt, Skal, Selialand, Thvera,
Nupar, Kalfafell, Mariubacki, Hvoll, and
Skaptardalur. The great distance from the
coast and the difficulty of approaching it, will,
however, probably be insuperable objections
to the last of these places again becoming
inhabited. Of the houses that are damaged,
exclusively of the fifteen farm-houses men-*
tioned as being desolate, there are fourteen
still inhabited, Buland, Ytre-Asar, Flaga,
Hrifunes, Leidvollur, Langhollt, Stadenhollt,
Efri-Steinsmyri, one of the five habitations
in Sydri-Steinsmyri, Ytra-hraun in Landbrot,
Eystri-Tunga, Kirkebai-cloister, Hun-
kurbackur, and Heidi. The number of
farm-houses that are in part destroyed and
partly damaged, amounts in ail to thirty-
seven, besides four cottages. Twenty-three
only, out of this number, now remain uninhabited,
which is rather more than one
quarter of the eighty-nine farm-houses before
noticed. It may farther be considered